(Reuters reporter Angus MacSwan at the Continental Hotel, in Ho Chi Minh City)
Today is June 5, and I was going to repost my memories of being in Beijing during the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 4, 1989, but that would be a really Old Fart thing to do. There’s nothing special about the 36th anniversary of something.
But rereading that story did trigger fond memories of my years in Asia, so I decided to rerun Greene With Envy. It’s about my affection for the author Graham Greene, and how I made the most of the great man’s death, by drawing on some dumb luck and some very talented people around me.
Indeed, one of the reader comments on that piece refers to a “Basler Genre,” which I guess is the ability to observe sensitive events without getting in the way, and then remembering to write about them, later.
If that’s my genre, I’m okay with it.
I hope you enjoy Greene With Envy.
Certainly well worth repeating. The great man would be pleased.
The Basler genre is an admirable genre.